Tag and Wapet are two small command line utilities to perform tagging in audio files. They were developed by Janne Hyvärinen (Case) with further development by Neil Popham (Synthetic Soul)

Tag is a file tagger that attempts to guess the tagging scheme from the file name, based on dozens of presets - or you can write your own presets based on the way you name your media files and folders. It can also convert tags from one format to another (E.G, from ID3v1 to APEv2) and remove tags altogether.

The tag formats it supports are ID3v1, ID3v2, APEv1, APEv2, Vorbis and Flac (but ID3v2 is only supported for reading and removing - not adding -, because Case strongly disliked this tag format).

Wapet, on the other hand, is meant to be used as a wrapper for encoders that do not have built-in tagging. For example, if you use a ripper that does not support tagging and neither does the encoder, you can configure your ripper to use Wapet, which by its turn will call the encoder, wait for the encoding process to finish and append the tag to the encoded file. It only supports the APE formats.

Case's page is long gone and I could not find a mirror of it, but Synthetic Soul's is stil available at the Internet Archive.

Big thanks to includemeout for reminding me of Tag and Wapet.


Date: 2007-05-03
Version: 2.0.52
Interface: Command line
Platform: Win32
Download: tag_2.0.52.zip - 196kB
Sources: tag_2.0.52_source.zip - 163kB

Date: 2007-05-11
Version: 0.6
Interface: Command line
Platform: Win32
Download: wapet_0.6.zip - 6kB
Sources: wapet_0.6_source.zip - 9kB